About the Artist

Shizuye Takashima is a graduate of Ontario College of Fine Arts in Toronto. Her paintings have been exhibited in Toronto, Montreal and New York. Her work is included in the art collections of the National Art Gallery in Ottawa and the Burnaby Art Gallery in British Columbia. She received major awards for her autobiographical book about her time spent in an internment camp with her Japanese-Canadian family in the Rocky Mountains of British Columbia during the Second World War. Translated into Japanese and Italian, her book was made into a musical in Tokyo, Japan, in 1972. She has travelled extensively through India and Asia. These life experiences informed her work as a Fine Arts instructor at the Ontario College of Fine Arts, Toronto where she taught art students for twenty-two years.